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Page 18
... shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and van- ity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world , marks a great and noble spirit . Patience , by ...
... shade . Let usefulness and beneficence , not ostentation and van- ity , direct the train of your pursuits . To maintain a steady and unbroken mind , amidst all the shocks of the world , marks a great and noble spirit . Patience , by ...
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... shade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice of virtue ; and are not so much good men , as the friends of goudness . Genuine virtue , has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a language ...
... shade it will bear . Many men mistake the love , for the practice of virtue ; and are not so much good men , as the friends of goudness . Genuine virtue , has a language that speaks to every heart throughout the world . It is a language ...
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... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man . " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the oppo site ...
... shaded with cypress , in doubt whither to direct his steps , his father appeared on a sudden standing before him . " Ortogrul , " said the old man . " I know thy perplexity ; listen to thy father ; turn thine eye on the oppo site ...
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... shaded with laurels and ev- ergreens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science , seemed to shed a glory round her votaries . Hap- py , said I , are they who are permitted to ascend the moun tain . But while I was ...
... shaded with laurels and ev- ergreens , and the effulgence which beamed from the face of Science , seemed to shed a glory round her votaries . Hap- py , said I , are they who are permitted to ascend the moun tain . But while I was ...
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... shades of evening stretched over the landscape . I hastened home- ward ; and resigned the night to silence and meditation . SECTION VII . AIKEN The journey of a day ; a picture of human life . BIDAH , the son of Abensina , left the ...
... shades of evening stretched over the landscape . I hastened home- ward ; and resigned the night to silence and meditation . SECTION VII . AIKEN The journey of a day ; a picture of human life . BIDAH , the son of Abensina , left the ...
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.